#4 Clothing

Hokay, so. Here's a chair. Dang, that's a pretty sweet chair, you might say. Haha with anyone who understood that....Anywayz, this chair was constructed out of clothes! More specifically, clothes I intend on attempting to trade for cooler ones at Buffalo Exchange. They were just taking up space in the corner of my room, so until they are transported to Hillcrest, I put them to use! At first, I was just trying to imitate shape with the items of clothing. But i realized that bringing color into the equation would make the chair actually read as a chair. So, with a unity of color, I could depict light and shadow better. So I used a range of whites to cremes and a smattering of greys and blues, instead of just random color. Ta-Da!

#3 Embroidery

This is what we like to call a "fascinator"! I stick a bobby pin on the underside of it and can then fascinatingly fasten it into my hair. =) It isnt the tidiest thing in the world, but it was my first try. It took me a few hours to embroider, and since I took this photo I actually filled in the yellow leaveature, so it stands out a bit more. I'm kind of stretching it a little on the application of the challenge rules here, but I think it still works. Happy New Year!
(PS-- The first time I was genuinely happy/excited about 2009 was tonite when I uploaded this photo to my Mac and saw that it had made a new "2009" subdivision in the pictures folder. I'm weird... and spend a lot of time in those picture folders. haha.)

#2 Hair Accessories

So, basically I dumped out my box of hair stuff on the floor and arranged it! Result: sad, worried old woman. I'm noticing an old-person theme?

#1: Electrical Cords

I see an old man in a wheelchair smoking a pipe. Hopefully you can see something similar. Oh, and he reminds me of the creepy creatures in Ursula's cave in The Little Mermaid.

Intro

This blog is intended to be centered around art. I want to challenge myself to daily create something and post it here. Maybe I'll do a new daily challenge every month? I make the rules around here, so yeah. Sounds good. =)

This first month, until the end of January, every day i'm going create a piece using unconventional materials. No pencil or paint or graphite or ink. This is kind of an extension of what I started with my final project (kind of an oxymoronic idea--to begin with something final...) in my Life Drawing class, which involved arranging leaves to form a figure...or rather the negative space around and the dark shadows of a figure. The project itself was inspired by some of the works of Vik Muniz . That project was really read as being environmental art, since it was not permanent, but mostly because it was created out of leaves-- nature. What I want to explore is not really environmental art, but the transitory nature of what using non-traditional mediums will entail, as well as the obvious and forced creativity of using these mediums. I hated ripping all those leaves off their plants...